Urology

October 25, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]

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June 14, 2013

June 14, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]

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May 10, 2013

May 10, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]

Sickle cell disease accounts for many priapism cases

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April 26, 2013

By Logan Lafferty

Thanks to commercials for erectile dysfunction drugs, men know to seek medical attention for “erections lasting more than four hours,” but a new study suggests a blood disorder is the cause of many prolonged erections. “I would say what the paper is telling us is that sickle-cell disease is still responsible for the bulk of […]

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March 21, 2013

March 21, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]

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December 7, 2012

December 7, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]

Cancer-Specific Anxiety Likely Increases Depressive Symptoms

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October 18, 2012

By Kelley Luckstein

Higher levels of cancer-specific anxiety were associated with poor sexual function and indicators of depression among men who underwent surgery to treat prostate cancer. The researchers hypothesized that cancer-specific anxiety would affect quality of life in men who had prostatectomy. “The 10-year survival for a man undergoing surgery to remove localized prostate cancer is greater […]

Don’t Rush To Decide Treatment For Prostate Cancer

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October 15, 2012

By Kelley Luckstein

They could use surgery to remove the prostate, radiation therapy to try to eliminate the cancer, and what’s called “active surveillance” or regular prostate checks and exams. According to a Mayo Clinic survey of 643 urologists and radiation oncologists, most would direct patients into treatment in their field. Meaning that radiation oncologists would suggest radiation […]

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September 28, 2012

September 28, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations USA […]

CT Paves the Way to More Accurate Kidney Stone Volume Estimates

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July 30, 2012

Mayo Clinic researchers have proposed a method of estimating kidney stone volume using CT images that offers significantly improved accuracy compared with threshold-based methods, according to a study published online July 23 in the Journal of Urology. “We proposed a volume estimation method based on an adaptive threshold segmentation method and a correction for the […]